Books Details
Author : Isabel Allende Pages : 432 pages Publisher : Harper
Perennial Language : eng ISBN-10 : 16527.Daughter_of_Fortune
ISBN-13 : 9780061120251
Books Descriptions
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British
colony of Valpara?so, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian
spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as
she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate
Joaqu?n Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is
discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849,
Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of
wealth. Joaqu?n takes off for San Francisco to seek his
fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow
him.As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey
north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of
San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose
newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. A
society of single men and prostitutes among whom Eliza moves--
with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor
Tao Chien--California opens the door to a new life of freedom
and independence for the
